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Sept. 9, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 9, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #3
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So we're starting to get some footage out of CUA regarding the damage brought by Hurricane Ike.
Hurricane Ike is destroying parts of Cuba.
It got the, I, I think, got dangerously close to La Habana.
And of course, you know, two-thirds of the building construction in Havana, which is a capital city, is beneath worldwide standards.
And they have had no money down there for the longest time.
They've done no refurbishing, no restoration.
And of course, the drive-by is a lot of people wringing their hands.
Oh, poor Cubans.
And don't worry about it, folks.
They got the best health care system in the world.
Jack Nicholson's told us this.
Steven Spielberg has told us this.
A Democrat Party, Charlie Wrangell, has told us this.
They have the best health care in the world.
So it doesn't matter how many people are hurt and damaged to get sick down there because the best health care system in the world is going to fix them right up.
What really worries me is this hurricane has destroyed a tobacco crop in the Vuelta Albajo.
The Vuelta of Bajo is the greatest tobacco growing region in the world.
God did it.
The soil pH, the cloud cover, the rain, the temperature, humidity, it's like Bordeaux has traditionally been the best place for vintage vintage wine.
Although I have to say that the guys in the Dominican are making real strides against the Cubans because they've overworked the land since the Soviets went south on them.
And there's no $5 billion a year subsidy.
I hear they're bringing it back a little bit now, but nevertheless, this is destroying a tobacco crop down.
I don't know where they are in the growing season right now.
Hopefully, you know, it's bad news all the way around.
Looks like the track forecast now has it headed at Corpus Christi, but all the track models have it heading into Mexico.
And I just, you know, I just remember, what is this?
Tuesday.
So it was last Wednesday, was it last Wednesday, maybe Thursday?
The track forecast had it hitting us here and then up in Jupiter.
Then they had it hitting Miami.
And you ought to see when this happens, the local TV people just go berserk.
And people start going to the Home Depot and buying everything out.
There's nothing left.
The bottled water's gone and all that.
And then they moved it.
They started moving.
Now it's going to go to the Keys.
And then they got moving.
It said it's going to go to Cuba.
And then they had it hitting New Orleans again.
And now it may not even hit the U.S.
I have a 72-hour rule.
Just ignore these things until they're 72 hours away from you where they say they're going to be.
That's when you can start paying.
Well, okay, Ty, take it back.
I guess I shouldn't do this.
I'm contradicting the federal government and the National Hurricane Center.
But you can't convince me that there is not politics in some of these track forecasts.
And I think the reason for it is that nobody is going to go through a Katrina situation in the federal government ever again.
Because I remember back in Katrina, poor old Max Mayfield, when he ran the Hurricane Center, he was on television begging everybody, get out of there, get out of the way.
This thing is headed for you.
It's going to be bad.
And nobody listened to him.
School Buzz Naked didn't listen to him.
Nobody listened to it.
So you know what happened to FEMA and the Bush administration and so forth.
And I guarantee you, they want to try to get population centers paying attention real fast, real soon, which is probably not a bad idea when you get right down to it to get everybody prepared and ready.
And then the good news is if it turns away.
McCain campaign doing something very, very smart.
They're right to get on top of this crap because this can be like a lightning strike in a dry forest.
CNN is reporting that the McCain-Palin team is continuing its pushback against stories about Sarah Palin that have taken on a life of their own on the internet that are all lies.
On Monday, they sent reporters a memo in response to reports that the Wasilla, Alaska resident, Sarah Palin, had tried to ban a lengthy list of books when she was mayor of that town.
It is categorically false.
The fact is that as mayor, Palin never asked anybody to ban a book, and not one book ever was banned, period, said McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers, directing reporters to campaign research, debunking the smear.
Watchdog website Snopes.com has also debunked an email that purports to include a list of books that Palin tried to ban.
I got that email, and I got it was it was signed by somebody, a resident of Wasilla, Alaska, who claimed to know Sarah Palin.
And this email had a lot of praise for her.
It was very well done, had a lot of praise for her, but then it got into this book banning business.
It turns out that the books on this list that have been banned were published after she left Wasilla.
She was no longer the mayor there when all this happened.
It didn't happen.
And there are countless others.
And I got emails from friends who also received this email.
Oh, no, Rochelle, tell me it isn't true.
Tell me it isn't true.
No, tell me she's not.
They were worried.
They were worried that Sarah Palin was a fraud, that she hadn't been vetted and so forth.
So I, you know, even in my downtime, my friends, I am working diligently researching this stuff and refuting these emails.
And it sort of got me mad.
I said, why do you believe this?
Do you not have enough experience with the internet and the left to know how they use it?
Why are you believing this, tripe?
Everybody wants to believe the worst.
And frankly, it's starting to make me mad.
Not just about politics, but about anything.
I just, I'm growing more and more impatient with fatalism, pessimism, and defeatism by the day.
This is just tripe.
I'll tell you how bad it's gotten.
And I mentioned this earlier today.
Kirsten Powers, who is a Democrat strategist, she's called on Fox News, does analysis on a bunch of different shows, has a piece today in the New York Post: How Obama Blew It Pays Price in Polls for Bungled Attacks on Sarah.
No, Obama didn't engage in the mass sneering at Palin, but he did fall into the trap of disrespecting her.
When McCain chose her, the Obama campaign's first response was to ridicule the size of her town, and then the candidate himself began referring to her as a former mayor when she is a sitting governor.
When she retaliated justifiably by mocking his stint as an organizer, the Obama camp was clearly rattled.
Obama himself actually began arguing about the importance of community organizing.
His supporters amplified this cry, claiming Palin's attack was a racist slur and passing around emails titled Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor.
Did you know they sent those emails around?
Oh, yeah, the Obamacare, they were doing that.
Jesus was a community organizer.
Pontius Pilate was a governor.
Absolutely.
They are so rattled by all this.
As Kirsten Powers writes here, meanwhile, the rest of the country was probably wondering what being a community organizer has to do with being president.
Lured by the McCain camp, Obama's supporters engaged in an argument about who had the more overall experience, the top of the Democrat ticket or the bottom of the Republican ticket.
This diminished the Messiah.
Meanwhile, the media lit up in all their cultural elite splendor.
Alaska, they sneered.
It's the population of Las Vegas.
Funny how the coastal elite only sneer at red states with small populations.
Howard Dean hailed from a blue state with almost the same population as Alaska, was a national phenomenon and frontrunner for the presidency.
That's Vermont.
Joe Biden's Delaware has a similarly small population, but nobody is mocking Delaware.
Evangelicals will never vote for a woman who works, they declared.
This from people who've likely never met an evangelical in their lives.
They could barely contain themselves when they found out Governor Palin's daughter was pregnant.
So sure were they that the evangelicals would hang her from the highest tree.
When evangelical leaders expressed support, there was a palpable disappointment that Palin or her daughter wasn't branded with a scarlet letter.
They claimed that the Palin announcement was some desperate pick that came out of nowhere.
Had they been doing their jobs or even perusing the weekly standard or right-wing blogs, they'd have known that Sarah Palin was on the list.
Since they didn't know anything about her, they started making things up.
Anything that fit the caricature of a right-wing hypocrite was thrown up with seemingly no facts-checking.
They said she opposes contraception when she said in a campaign debate that she is pro contraception.
They said she cut funding for pregnant teens.
She provided a massive funding increase for pregnant teens.
They accused her of cutting funding for mentally disabled children when she raised it 175% over the former administration.
She was said to have been a member of the wacky Alaska Independence Party.
The New York Times had run a retraction on that.
Like Bobby Jindal, Palin has been deemed one of the Republicans' rising stars.
Since it's national reporters' job to cover American politics, their ignorance of Palin is distressing.
More Americans think the media are cheerleading for Obama, so they'll punish him for the reporters' and editors' sins.
And as to this book banning business.
In fact, they've thrown the kitchen sink of scandals at her.
Instead of picking one or two really good scandals, they're throwing scores of them out there willy-nilly, no fact-checking.
In some cases, they're not even bothering to read them in their entirety.
One example is the list of books that Palin supposedly banned.
The problem is that many of the books on the list were not even published yet when she supposedly banned them.
A junior journalism college student could have investigated that when another accusation was that she cut funds for pregnant teenagers.
Those circulating that one evidently weren't good at reading her at math.
The document they presented as proof actually showed an expansion of the program, but that didn't keep the accusation from being reported by the Washington Post, the New York Times.
Yet another accusation was that Palin cut funding for special needs children.
Not true, and you could have found out yourself by Googling the subject.
It was reported as fact, even cited by Soledad O'Brien on CNN.
And some of these rumors have been all over television.
They have been reported without any single fact-checking taking place.
That's why I said earlier, it's highlighting the incompetence, the irresponsibility, and the hack nature of the drive-by media today.
And it's good the McCain camp's firing back on this stuff.
Lickety split.
But I just can't tell you how distressing it was.
I was happy to be there to help.
How distressing it was to get all these emails from people who had received this email about her banning books.
Oh, no, Rush, tell me it isn't true.
Tell me it isn't true.
Oh, it always happens to us this way.
We get somebody we think is so wonderful.
They turn out to be bad.
Oh, please tell me.
Gee, whiz, why?
People in this day and age who understand what the left is all about, especially a blast email from somebody you don't know.
Why would you believe it?
Particularly in politics.
Newsweek magazine, sliming Palin.
This is BrooksJackson at factcheck.org, but they put this on the Newsweek website.
We've been flooded for the past few days with queries about dubious internet postings and mass email messages making claims about Sarah Palin.
We find that many are completely false or misleading.
She did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62%.
She didn't cut it at all.
In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.
She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla Library.
Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time.
The librarian has said Palin asked a what-if question, but the librarian continued at her job through most of Palin's first term.
She was never a member of the Alaska Independence Party.
She never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan.
She has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska schools.
A few of the claims were included in a chain email by a woman named Ann Kilkenny, and that's the one that I got and all my friends got that panicked them.
We'll be looking into other charges in that email for a future story.
For more explanation of the bullet points above, please read the analysis and it goes.
It's a long, long analysis.
But Ann Kilkenny, I know Sarah Pitts outside.
I know Sarah Palin had plenty of praise for her.
You know, I spotted this from the get-go, but banning books.
Folks, the only censors in America today are the American left and the Democrat Party.
They're the ones that want to shut down talk radio.
They're the ones that want to silence anybody who doesn't agree with what they think.
They're the ones who have sponsored political correctness, which is nothing more than an encroachment on free speech.
If there's anybody out there who wants to ban speech, beware of the people on the left.
Back in just a second.
I mentioned to you, Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, the former Speaker of the California Assembly, had written an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle suggesting that Democrats are in trouble.
He was on DNC TV today, and he said this, explaining himself.
I think you have to first capture the attention of the voters, and then you can educate the voters.
She has managed to capture the attention through the entertainment process, not through the informational process.
And if she can keep that going for the next 58 or 59 days, we really are going to be in trouble.
You are in trouble now.
And that's what he knows.
By the way, I don't know if you people have heard this.
Some of you may not care.
Kim Jong-il, the pot-bellied dictator of North Korea, is said today to be ill, said to have had a stroke.
I, ladies and gentlemen, think that there's something to it.
I think he's terribly ill because Kim Jong-il never misses the gay pride parade, which is traditionally held in North Korea in Judy Garland Memorial Park in Pyongyang.
He wasn't there.
It's got to be bad.
Here's Vincent in Eatonton, Georgia.
Vincent, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Vincent, testing one, two.
I guess he flew the coop.
Not there.
Where are we going next?
Spokane Washington.
Glenn, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I'm a first-time caller.
I'll tell you that.
I have two points to make.
Are you listening?
I am, yes.
One has to do with the.
What else?
What are you doing?
What else would I be doing?
I don't know.
On the phone, I can't tell.
I'd use the cell phone too much, and sometimes it goes out talking to no one.
No, no.
I know a lot of guys that feel that way in their house, but on this program, you were being listened to.
Okay.
The first comment I'd like to make: I'm a retired educator.
I was in university for 40-some years.
And you're making a mistake when you say that Obama has a first-class education.
Rush, he went to an elite set of schools.
Now, I want to point out to you that the three things that people get, especially undergraduates, from attending some of these, quote, elite institutions are this: one, they get a pedigree.
Two, they get networking, which allows them to tap in on very good positions and so forth, whether they deserve them or not.
And the third thing they get is hoobris, insolence, and arrogance.
And that's what they're displaying.
And I've known this.
It's grown upon me for 40 years.
And when somebody says that a student has a degree from an elite institution, I know that that means virtually nothing with regard to the education that person obtains.
That's the first point I'd like to make.
That's an excellent point.
I'm glad you call and made it.
What's the second point?
The second point has to do with something you said today earlier in your program.
And that is, you said you wanted to see a clean out of Washington that went down in the ranks.
Well, I just want to point out to you that thrilled me because I have been writing for two years or more to my representative in Congress saying that you people do not understand.
This 60s bunch is in the CIA, they're in the IRS, they're in the State Department, they're everywhere.
And they have been sandbagging everything that the Bush administration has tried to do, and even the Bush administration before that.
But there is a silver lining, Rush.
They're getting long in the tooth.
And so they're going to slowly move out.
Well, the problem with that is, if we get an Obama presidency, he can just appoint a bunch of young elites, as you just described them, for these career and lifetime positions in these bureaucracies, nominate judges who will be there for life.
We cannot afford this guy.
Any way you choose to define a Ford.
Little Fleetwood Mac here in Holiday Road, Rush Limbaugh, back on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
There is a piece from the Asian Times by a writer who calls himself Spingler.
No first name.
I seem to recall having read works of this author on previous occasions.
This is from the Asian Times last week, and I've had it sitting over here in my stack because it's long.
I mean, there is no way even I, with the talents I possess, could probably get away with reading this whole thing and capturing your attention.
The excerpts here are just to die for, though.
This guy thinks Obama's going to lose because he has no character.
He has no friends.
All he has are people that he has used and stepped on as rungs of a ladder to get where he goes.
He has no room for a real friendship because his angry wife, Michelle, crowds them all out.
He was in Denver.
Senator Obama's acceptance speech last week seemed vastly different from the stands of this city's Invesco Stadium than it did to the 40 million who saw it on TV.
Melancholy hung like thick smog over the reserved seats where I sat with Democrat Party staffers.
And by the way, I had a guy out there who had a guy out there.
I mean, my guy wasn't there.
He had a guy out there.
So I had a report coming in, you know, one person removed.
And this guy was telling the same thing.
And I'm watching it on TV.
And I told my guy, I said, you get back to him.
I cannot afford to receive a bunch of BS.
The place looks electric to me.
And if your guys telling me that there's melancholy or this thing, there's no excitement.
You better, I want this double-checked.
He said, okay, okay, okay.
So double-checked with this guy out there.
Yeah, I'm telling you, this guy says, this is before Obama went on.
This was, you know, the Cheryl Crowe was up there.
Nobody was caring about anything.
It was really, it was dull.
TV had the ability to make it look like a lot of people were there and there were a lot of noise going on, but it really wasn't.
This guy, Spengler, said the same thing.
Melancholy hung like smog over the reserved seats where I was with Democrat Party staffers.
The crowd, of course, cheered mechanically at the taglines, flourished placards, and even rose for the obligatory wave around the stadium, but its mood was sour.
The air carried the acrid smell of defeat, and the crowd took shallow breaths.
Even the appearance of Stevie Wonder failed to get to blood pumping.
The speech itself dragged on for three-quarters of an hour.
As David Broder wrote in the Washington Post, Obama's recital of a long list of domestic promises could have been delivered by any Democrat nominee, from Walter Mondoll to John Kerry.
There was no theme music to this speech.
Really, no phrase or sentence that's likely to linger in the memory of any listener.
The thing I never expected did, in fact, occur: Al Gore, the famously wooden former vice president, gave a more lively and convincing speech than Obama did.
On TV, Obama's spectacle might have looked like the Ten Commandments, but inside the stadium, it felt like the night of the living dead.
The longer he spoke and the more money he promised to spend, the lower the party professionals sloused in their seats.
The professionals I sat with were Hillary people, to be sure, and they had reason to sulk, for an Obama victory might do them little good in any event.
Speaking to Obama supporters on the periphery of the big event, I was startled by the rapturous devotion elicited by the junior senator from Illinois.
He's no symbol for identity politics, no sacrifice on the altar of white guilt, but the most gifted persuader of individuals I have encountered in any country's politics, as well as a powerful orator on the grand stage.
This is not a crowd phenomenon nor a fad, but the response of hundreds of people to an individual.
He goes on to describe some of these people, but then says, Gandalf's warnings about the irresistible voice of the wizard Saruman in The Lord of the Rings came to mind.
If these battle-hardened veterans of America's wars fell so easily under the spell of Obama's voice, what who can withstand it?
Obama will spend the rest of his life wondering why he rejected the obvious road to victory, that is, choosing Hillary.
Rejecting Clinton in favor of the colorless, unpopular, tangled-tongued Washington perennial Joe Biden was a statement of weakness.
McCain's selection was a statement of strength.
America's voters will forgive many things in a politician, including sexual misconduct.
They will not forgive weakness.
This is why McCain will win in November and by a landslide barring some unforeseen event.
Obama, the most talented, persuasive politician of his generation, the intellectual superior of all his competitors, but a fatally insecure personality.
American voters are not intellectual, but they are shrewd like animals.
They can smell insecurity and the convention stank of it.
Obama's prospective defeat is entirely of its own making.
No one is more surprised than Republican strategists who were convinced just weeks ago that a weakening economy ensured a Democrat victory.
Biden, who won 3% of the popular vote in the Democrat presidential primary in Delaware, 1% or less in every other contest he entered, is ballot box poison.
Obama evidently chose him to assuage critics who point to his lack of foreign policy credentials, and that was a deadly error.
For by appearing to concede the critics' claim that he knows little about foreign policy, Obama raised questions about whether he's qualified to be president in the first place.
Why didn't Obama choose Hillary?
Well, the most credible explanation came from Robert Novak, May 10th, who reported that Michelle Obama vetoed Hillary's candidacy.
The Democrat frontrunner's wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party's nomination, but she has been sniping at Clinton since last summer.
According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility.
Novak wrote, now, if that's true, then Obama succumbed to the character weakness I described in a February 26th profile titled Obama's Women Reveal His Secret.
His peculiar dependency on an assertive and often rancorous spouse, I argued, made him vulnerable and predicted that Obama will destroy himself before he destroys the country.
Curiously, Obama ignored the rising stars of his own party, offering the same prime time speaking slots to familiar faces, including Ted Kennedy, the Clintons, his own wife, the prospective First Lady, of course.
McCain doesn't have a tenth of Obama's synaptic firepower, but he's a nasty old sailor who knows when to come about for a broadside.
So let me get to the conclusion to this.
Combine a child's response to serial abandonment with the perspective of an outsider, and Obama became an alien species against which American politics had no natural defenses.
He's a third world anthropologist profiling Americans, but not of the American system.
No country's politics depends more openly on friendships than America's, yet Obama has not a single real friend.
For he rose so fast that all of his acquaintances became rungs on the ladder of his ascent.
One human relationship crowds the others out of his life.
That's his marriage to Michelle, a strong, assertive, and very angry woman.
If Novak's report is accurate, then Michelle's anger will have lost the election for Obama, as Achilles' anger nearly killed the Greek cause in the Trojan War.
But the responsibility rests not with Michelle, but with Obama.
Obama's failure of nerve at the cusp of his success is consistent with my profile of the candidate in which I predicted he would self-destruct.
It's happening faster than I expected.
As I wrote last February, it is conceivable that Barack Obama, if elected, will destroy himself before he destroys the country.
Hatred is a toxic diet even for someone with as strong a stomach as Obama.
Both Obama and the American public should be very careful of what they wish for.
As the horrible example of Obama's father shows, there's nothing worse for an embittered outsider manipulating the system from within to achieve its goals.
By all rights, the Democrats should win this election.
They will lose, I predict, because of the flawed character of their candidate, Barack Obama.
Guy named Spengler in the Asian Times last week, something.
We'll link to it.
I just read you some excerpts there.
I didn't even read anywhere.
I probably didn't get to 25% of it.
I've got to take a brief time out here, folks.
Sit tight.
We'll be back.
I'll squeeze some more phone calls in.
I knew this was going to be the case.
I've got probably 33 soundbites today, and I haven't got anywhere near them, and they're all good.
So we have to hold them over till tomorrow.
It just does.
Global warming news.
The guy who runs Australia, Kevin Rood, his global warming guru, has reluctantly exposed the whole con of man-made global warming.
He basically said, ignore everything the government has told you.
Professor Ross Garneau conceded last week that the truth is that it really is cheaper for Australians to do nothing about global warming.
And no, it's not immoral to figure there's no point spending big money to stop this warming when it won't make a blind bit of difference.
Now, this Kevin Roode guy is a huge.
I mean, he was going to sign Kyoto until we actually found out what it was.
But he's a huge global warming guy.
You know, went to that stupid thing they had in Bali, the UN Council on Global Warming.
So his global warming guru said, this is a con.
We can't stop it.
No matter how much we spend, it'd be cheaper for us to do nothing.
Okay, title of this tune, Snowden.
I'll give you a hint.
It's by the Who.
It's called Squeeze Box.
It's called Mama's Got a Squeeze Box.
It's an accordion.
Back to the phones, Julia in Rentwood, Tennessee.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
How are you doing today?
I'm doing wonderfully well.
Thank you.
Fantastic.
You had mentioned earlier about Obama and lowering taxes.
And I would like to remind everybody that the last time we had a Democratic candidate who was going to lower taxes, he spent about 20 days in office, declared he'd worked harder than he'd ever heard.
Not only did he raise taxes, but he introduced us to the concept of retroactivity and has set that precedent.
Yeah, Obama's talking about tax cuts.
It's all right, populism and BS.
What's even more interesting is Obama is promising to delay his tax increases that he's promised on the rich until after the recession.
Thank you, Julia.
I'm really glad you waited.
Kurt in Pittsburgh.
Hello, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
And how about the Steelers defense?
How about those Steelers?
How about that?
All the way.
Listen, Rush, I'm a longtime listener, first-time caller, and one of those Bible family gun claimers from Western Pennsylvania.
Thank you.
And I wanted to share a story with you.
A week ago last Saturday, we went to the Palin McCain rally in Washington, Pennsylvania.
It was the day after he announced her.
And we have a five-year-old daughter with Down syndrome, and we made a sign that said, We kids with Down syndrome.
So when they pulled in their bus, the sign did catch McCain and Palin and the rest of their family.
It caught their eye.
We could tell they gave us a thumbs up from the bus.
And so we were all excited just by that.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Who gave you the thumbs up?
McCain and Palin?
McCain, Palin, Cindy McCain.
We could see them from the bus.
We were in a position where we had eye contact with them.
My wife was holding our daughter.
Very, very, very cool.
It was really cool, Rush.
I was like, wow, that's awesome.
I mean, because I love Governor Palin.
And so I thought, well, that's really neat.
So then we moved around as the buses were getting ready, the buses getting ready to pull out.
We kind of positioned ourselves so we could just wave them on.
And a Secret Service agent came up to us and said, hey, can you come with us?
And I was like, well, do we have a choice?
So you shouldn't have worried.
It's not the Clinton administration.
Right.
So we accompanied them up the hill and we went right to the bus where it was.
And Governor Palin, Senator McCain, Cindy, Todd Palin, they're all standing there.
We're in this inner circle with just us and them and Secret Service agents.
And they came right up to us and thanked us for coming out, said they loved our sign.
And Governor Palin immediately said, May I hold your daughter?
And our daughter, Chloe, who's five, went right to her.
And I have some pictures I'd love to send you maybe when I'm done here.
But Governor Palin was hugging Chloe, and then she just, her little daughter brought their baby, Trig, who had Down syndrome from the bus.
He was napping, and Chloe went right over and kissed him on the cheek.
And my son, Nolan, who's nine, he's thankful.
This is amazing.
I'll send you all the stuff.
Senator McCain was talking to my son, and he thanked him for his service.
And he asked my son if he wanted to see the bus.
And we're just, we were hanging out.
And it was very surreal.
I felt like we could have had a pizza and a beer with them.
They were so.
Well, you know what?
I want you to hold.
I want to put you on hold.
I want Snerdley to give you our super secret, known only to three people here, email address.
I will send you everything, Russ.
And then could you send us these pictures?
Would you mind if we put them on the website?
I would be honored.
And that's what my main thing is, they are warm, kind, genuine people, and they represent the best of this country.
That's right.
When you send these pictures, make sure you identify.
I mean, we'll know Palin and McCain, of course.
Identify yourselves.
I will identify everybody in the picture, Russ.
And God bless you for being a beacon of hope and truth in this country.
No, no, no.
It's nothing.
It's nothing.
You're doing the Lord's work.
Well, we're very blessed, and I want people to know what a blessing to have a child with Down syndrome is.
And these kids are ain't.
Well, see, that's the thing.
There's always good to be found in everything that happens.
It may be a while before it reveals itself.
Absolutely.
And because she sees, when she hugged my daughter, I said, here's the difference.
This candidate embraces life and all its limitless possibilities.
That's what she is.
Okay, well, I got to run here, but I'm going to put you on hold.
Thank you, Rush.
Snerdley.
Thank you, Kurt.
I really appreciate it.
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Mona Charon has a column out.
She's wondering why the left and the Democrats are so discombobulated over Sarah Palin.
And she thinks she's not sure.
It might be the baby.
Trigg, the Down syndrome baby.
The fact that she would give birth to a Down syndrome baby just hasn't discombobulated.
They don't know what to do.
I can't relate to that.
We'll detail this tomorrow with much more.
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